Jotham Suez (SuezLab@JHU)

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Microbiome enthusiast 🦠 || Assistant Professor for Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins University || He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.suezlab.org

A figure from the paper that provides an overview of available culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches for characterizing the human gut virome. Both culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches should be used to study the gut virome. At the bench, many protocols have been adapted to enrich viruses in a sample and isolate them using a sensitive host. Once a virus is isolated, various assays can be used to characterize how the virus interacts with its bacterial host. On the command line, viral genomes can be predicted and viral taxonomy can be identified within a sample. Once procured, multiple tools can be used to annotate viral genomes for predicted gene content and viral lifestyle and predict bacterial host taxonomy.
AI-rendered illustration of the article's title: Sucralose consumption ablates cancer immunotherapy response through microbiome disruption
Table from Crakes et al. Immunometabolism 2025 summarizing the evidence for associations between non-nutritive sweeteners consumption and changes in the human gut microbiome in observational trials
Table from Crakes et al., Immunometabolism 2025, summarizing the results of all interventional trials examining the impact of non-nutritive sweeteners on the human microbiome, broken down according to the type of sweetener
Snippet from the New York Times of an article reporting on the World Health Organization's recommendation against using artificial sweeteners
AI-generated (ChatGPT) cartoon of different gut bacteria munching on different types of sachets containing "fake sugar" as a reference to non-nutritive sweeteners
Dr. Haley Hallowell presenting her research at the Suez Lab, Johns Hopkins University, during the Mid-Atlantic Microbiome meeting
Certificate for Jotham Suez - Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field, 2024